Learning objective
- To research historical figures that contributed to technological advances in computing.
Success criteria
- I can identify some of the people who
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National curriculum
Computing
Pupils should be taught to:
- Use
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Cross-curricular links
History
Pupils should be taught about:
- A
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Before the lesson
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Lesson plan
1: Lesson plan
An area for you to put useful resources from the previous lesson
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Adaptive teaching
Pupils needing extra support
Could use the Resource: Fact files to help support online research; could use the Resource: Presentation guidelines to remind them how to keep their presentations interesting and engaing.
Pupils working at greater depth
Should be encouraged to embed videos into their presentations; could pick one ‘paired’ figure (e.g. Steve Jobs or Steve Wozniak) and persuade the audience that one was more important than the other.
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Assessing progress and understanding
Pupils with secure understanding indicated by
Explaining the importance of historical figures and
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Vocabulary definitions
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discovery
Finding information or inventing something that was not known before.
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invention
A new device or process that solves a problem.
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